Where's boucher? He can make an excellent iconoclastic rock snob case for one of the American editions over the British one from the Beatles mid-period.
The inclusion of "I've Just Seen a Face" -- which tempts me to recant every nasty thing I've ever said about Paul -- and the deletion of "Nowhere Man" make the American version of Rubber Soul better than the UK version. I like "Drive My Car" a lot, but I'm willing to let it go because "I've Just Seen a Face" fits the sound and tone of the album -- as the lead track sets, along with the second song "Norwegian Wood," the tone and sound of the album -- much better, culminating in Lennon combining the beauty and wistfulness of the former with the regret and sadness of the latter in the album's high point, "In My Life".
Is that the case you were talking about?
Is that the case you were talking about?
I think so. In most instances I do agree with the orthodox preference for the British sequencing, but I do think your case has merit.
I wish more bands were influenced by the early Beatles than later Beatles.
You flip it after "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
Yup. "Here Comes the Sun" is the first song of side 2.
Yep. I haven't played my vinyl copy in years, but I seem to remember that there's a lock groove after "Her Majesty," too.
Maybe on your copy. Not mine.
To be fair, though, I feel like I've internalized the Beatles to the extent that I hardly ever listen to them.
This is how I feel about them, which is why when I listen to them these days, it's usually the earlier stuff.
My fave, despite being a really nasty song (or maybe that's a because), is "Run For Your Life".
Does anyone know who the guy is in the Yes "Owner of a Lonely Heart" video is? I have NO REASON to need this information, other than having the song come up on Launchcast, and suddenly idly wondering.
Does anyone know who the guy is in the Yes "Owner of a Lonely Heart" video is? I have NO REASON to need this information, other than having the song come up on Launchcast, and suddenly idly wondering.
Guy with a crewcut and a suit who keeps having spazz attacks in a vaguely dystopian corporate downtown? Nope.
I just remember the plates of snakes and bugs.
My favorite Beatles album remains
Let it Be.
My favorite songs are probably "All My Loving" (sweet) and "I've Got A Feeling" or "Get Back" (rockin').
On the subject of music snobbery, my roommate and I are engaged in a cold war. We've only lived together 2 and a half months and the music battles have begun. He will NOT let me put my iPod on shuffle in the car our in or living room if he is home. The other night coming out of a bar I asked him why we couldn't listen to my damn iPod in the car for a change and he actually said to me "I hear the stuff that comes out of your room. Ugh." .... UGH??? We've been clycing through the same 1000 songs on his iPod for weeks. Oh - hey could it be Neil Young? Again!?
I kid, sort of, we've been best friends for over 10 years and this is normal for us. It's his car, anyway.
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
Mr. H loves the Beatles with an unholy love. Abbey Rd is one of my favorites. We had a whole drunken theory- which I will stand by even sober- about how slashy "Oh Darlin'" re: John & Paul.
